Biography Edward Von Siebold Dingle

The following is from Lake High:

Edward Von Siebold Dingle grew up on a plantation just outside of the city of Charleston where he was born in 1893. His mother was a noted painter of birds and she helped guide him from an early age. When he proudly produced his first bird drawing at the age of twelve he had started on a path that he would stay on for the rest of his life. From that precocious start ornithology became both his artistic and his scientific passion. Indeed, while art collectors know him for his splendid watercolors of hundreds of different birds, in scientific circles he is remembered for discovering and recording five new bird species.

Dingle followed in the scientific and artistic footsteps of John James Audubo
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